GeForce GTS 250M and GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3 - video card comparison
GeForce GTS 250M
GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3
Architecture
GT2xx (2009−2012)
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name
N10E-GE
GF116
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
June 2009
July 2012
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
SLI options
+
-
MXM Type
MXM 3.0 Type-B
-
Core clock speed
500 MHz
783 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
240 gflops
451.0 gflops
Gigaflops
360
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
727 million
1,170 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
144
Power consumption (TDP)
28 Watt
106 Watt
Texture fill rate
16.00
18.79
Memory type
DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
Up to 2000 MHz
1400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
51.2 GB/s
22.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
HDMIVGALVDSSingle Link DVIDisplayPortDual Link DVI
2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
HDMI
+
+
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
+
2.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.1
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Power management
8.0
-